Columbia International Affairs Online
CIAO DATE: 6/5/2007
More Troops for Iraq? Time to just say “No”
January 2007
Project on Defense Alternatives
Abstract
Can a marginal increase in the US troop presence in Iraq pave a new way forward? Or is it a detour – a marginal diversion from our present, failed course?
Even if we were to accept, at this late date, that our troubles in Iraq are due to our having invested too few bodies, why should we believe that a small increment can turn the tide?
These are among the questions raised by the Bush administration’s new initiative and they point to a more fundamental one:
What is the problem that has bedeviled the US effort in Iraq for nearly four years?
